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The gorilla joke is either a great meme or “a sign of the imminent collapse of critical thought and public discourse”. New York Times, “Let’s Talk About the Gorilla Channel For One More Day”, Vivian Wang, 1/6/2018. There’s been a couple of articles on topics of social media, critical thinking and how to communicate with people…
In my last post I mentioned that I was reading books on design which is something a little different, at least from this blog. So I thought I would write a quick post on why I’m reading about design. There are a lot of things that interest me but two areas that appears to catch…
They tell young students in college to major in STEM jobs (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) but what if there aren’t enough STEM jobs to go around? An article in the NY Times explodes the idea that majoring in STEM will get you jobs. Basically the only STEM major that will potentially net you a job…
This is fascinating…even CEOs such as Aetna’s chief are realizing that the current brand of capitalism is damaging. “But Mark Bertolini, the CEO of Aetna, recently offered another, starker rationale for creating more well-paid jobs: The survival of capitalism depends on it. “If we don’t reinvent the capitalist model,” Bertolini told the Committee for Economic…
The following are links to a couple of Bloomberg articles on the use of robots on Wall Street: Want to Protect Your Wall Street Job from Robots? Robots are Coming for these Wall Street Jobs Bankers Publicly Embracing Robots Are Privately Fearing Job Cuts How to Survive Wall Street’s Robot Revolution
[I’m still incredibly lazy and not accomplishing much. I’m still riveted to the news on the hurricanes but it looks like the latest one will definitely NOT enter the Gulf. So maybe now I can stop the binge watching and start doing other things. I have begun to do some art work and readings again…